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Read through the text on the left under Question: How does natural selection affect allelic frequencies?
Choose an Environment (Rocky, Desert, Grasslands & Urban) and be sure to start with each possible allelic frequency provided (A=0.2 and a=0.8, A=0.4 and
a=0.6, A=0.5 and a=0.5, A=0.6 and a=0.4). These allelic frequencies tell you the percent of the population that has those particular alleles. For example, A = 0.2
means that 20% of the population has the A allele in their genetic make-up.
Keep track of the environment that you are in, the color of the environment, the starting allelic frequency and how it changes from generation to generation, as well
as the number of individuals with the different genotypes.
For example, a table you may use might look like the following:
ROCKY ENVIRONMENT: color of the environment: __________________________
Next, devise a way to graph allelic frequency trends, starting with the four different allelic frequency scenarios.
7) In another population, such as the Peppered Moth population in London during the late 1800s, there was not an intermediate form of the organism for the
heterozygous genotype. For example, BB and Bb were both black phenotypes which camouflaged well on the soot-covered/lichen-free trees and the bb
was the white phenotype which camouflaged well on the healthy/lichen-covered trees. In this scenario, if natural selection (lichen-free trees) selected for
the dominant B allele, would the recessive b allele be completely eliminated from the population over time? Why or why not?
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8) There is a theory that humans are creating antibiotic-resistant superbacteria. Scientists warn that overuse of antibiotics could result in a strain of bacteria
that is resistant to these antibacterial treatments. Explain how this could happen.
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